Greetwell / Grentewelle

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design element - architectural - columns - 8

the eight outed colonnettes have simple mouldings bases but the abundant stiff-leaf on the basin underbowl may be seen as being the actual capitals
Scene Description: the eight outed colonnettes have simple mouldings bases but the abundant stiff-leaf on the basin underbowl may be seen as being the actual capitals
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by T.J. Wilson, reproduced in Colling's Details of Gothic Arquitecture, vol. 2 (London, 1856): pl. 5
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design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by T.J. Wilson, reproduced in Colling's Details of Gothic Arquitecture, vol. 2 (London, 1856): pl. 5
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view of church exterior - south side - detail

Source caption: "Anglo-Saxon window. Blocked 11th century keyhole window in the south wall of All Saints' church"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Anglo-Saxon window. Blocked 11th century keyhole window in the south wall of All Saints' church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 20 January 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3822134] [accessed 31 December 2021]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "Greetwell. All Saints' church"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Greetwell. All Saints' church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Westlake, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a 16 April 2015 digital photograph by Brian Westlake [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4478630] [accessed 31 December 2021]
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view of church exterior - tower - west side - detail

Source caption: "Anglo-Saxon window, A small, round, 11th century window with looped decoration re-set in the 13th century tower of All Saints' church"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Anglo-Saxon window, A small, round, 11th century window with looped decoration re-set in the 13th century tower of All Saints' church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 20 January 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3822132] [accessed 31 December 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Source caption: "All Saints' church, Greetwell"
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints' church, Greetwell"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5794945] [accessed 31 December 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Source caption: "All Saints' church, Greetwell"
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints' church, Greetwell"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 17 May 2014 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3989501] [accessed 31 December 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "All Saint's Church, Greetwelll"
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saint's Church, Greetwelll"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 12 May 2018 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5794955] [accessed 31 December 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 01605GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Greetwell Rd, Lincoln LN3 4NG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Lincolnshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the Lincoln Eastern Bypass, 3-4 km E of Lincoln
Historical Region: Hundred of Lawress
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [altered], Early English [altered]
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Greetwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF0171/greetwell/] [accessed 31 December 2021]; it reports a priest and a church in it. The baptismal font here is noted in Colling (1856) as Early English, and illustrated with a drawing by T.J. Wilson. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Pevsner, Harris and Antram (1989): "A square C13 bowl with stiff-leaf sprays at the corners, on a base of eight shafts." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF0135471532] notes: "Parish church. C11, early C13, late C14, heavily restored in C19 [...] C13 font heavily restored in C19, with octagonal plinth surrounded by 8 shafts, their stiff leaf capitals forming broad band round base of plain rectangular bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.232432, -0.480933
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 13′ 56.75″ N, 0° 28′ 51.36″ W
UTM: 30U 668131 5901089

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Colling, James K., Details of Gothic arquitecture, measured and drawn from existing examples [Vol. II], London: David Bogue; George Bell, 1856
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lincolnshire, London: Penguin, 1989